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Church plants are not established churches.  Church plants do not have the same offerings in programs, services, and ministries as established churches.  And church planters are most often cut from a totally different cloth than those men who have been pastoring congregations for many years.  This is not to say that the church planter should [...]

Being 15 months in as a new church plant and also being a brand new and first time church planter I have certainly come to understand the essentials of a church planting team. (Never say never, but I would hope that we would never attempt anything like this again without starting with a solidified group/team [...]

Au contraire mon frere – on the contrary my brother Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?” And he answered them, “Whoever has two [...]

Au contraire, mon frère – to the contrary my brother So here we go with # 2 and the explorations of “to the contrary” that we find in the teachings of Jesus as it would pertain to our culture in America.  Please, this is not intended to be anti-American, anti-people with resources, anti-people with homes, [...]

au contraire mon frère - on the contrary, my brother This is a blog that I have been wanting to begin and write for quite some time.  My heart is to actually author a book that would have the exact same title at some point – who knows?  The reason is that it grieves my heart and [...]

As if this were not enough the Lord of heaven and earth proclaims in verses thirteen and fourteen, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”[1]  What can be made of such [...]

Another fantastic elaboration on verse twelve declares, Jesus again slowly resumed the main current of his teaching.  He wanted to impress on the disciples that he was not disbanding them in anticipation of his departure but, rather, he was expecting them to continue his work and do even greater things than he had accomplished.  Such [...]

This speaks directly to the next phrase of the passage that reads in the ESV “whoever believes in me” and this is really where the rubber meets the road in this passage.  It would be easy to just sit back and say that the saying of Jesus still yet to come are reserved for Apostles [...]

The questions loom large when approaching any difficult passage of scripture and proper exegesis is imperative to not only a greater understanding of what the written Word of God is saying but also what the Living Word of God is specifically communicating to His people.  The very best approach to take in a tough area [...]